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Got an nvidia gpu in that machine? The Sway author has strong opinions about nvidia (historically warranted), so you need to specify a magic flag (now --unsupp
by vitus 2y ago
Got an nvidia gpu in that machine?
The Sway author has strong opinions about nvidia (historically warranted), so you need to specify a magic flag (now --unsupported-gpu, previously --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia).
- junon 2y agoThat's silly, and reason enough just to stay away from it. I don't like when developers try to evangelize their opinions through things like configuration variables. It's quite childish to me. But yes, that's probably it.
- vitus 2y agoAgain, historically it was warranted because Nvidia had their own strong opinions in their proprietary closed-source driver, and hardware acceleration in Wayland just straight up didn't work with said driver for many years because Nvidia was trying to push their own alternative [0], up until 2021 when they finally caved [1]. I agree that the naming of the command-line flag was childish, but I think it was reasonable to refuse to be strongarmed into doing unpaid work to support Nvidia's end-run around standards that all the other players in the space adopted. [0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Streams-vs-GBM-Toolkits https://www.phoronix.com/news/Streams-vs-GBM-Toolkits [1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-495.44-Linux-Driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-495.44-Linux-Driver